AS IT IS 2016-08-09 Olympic Firsts Highlight Opening Weekend

AS IT IS 2016-08-09 Olympic Firsts Highlight Opening Weekend

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There have already been a lot of “firsts” to celebrate at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Team USA won the first gold medal of the Games on Saturday. Ginny Thrasher won the gold medal in the women’s 10-meter air rifle competition early in the day. She finished 1 point ahead of Du Li, the silver medalist from China.

It is the 19-year-old’s first Olympic Games. She entered her first shooting competition just five years ago.

Here is another first. Majilinda Kelmendi of Kosovo won the country’s first-ever Olympic medal, and it was gold. Kelmendi is one of the best judo¹ athletes in the world. She competes in the 52 kilogram division.

This is the first time that athletes from Kosovo are permitted to represent their home country in the Olympics.

Kelmendi represented Albania in the 2012 London Games. She won the bronze medal.

“This is the first time that Kosovo is part of the Olympics, and for the first time, I think gold is huge,” she said.

There was another Olympic first in the 10-meter air pistol² event on Saturday. Hoang Xuan Vinh is from Vietnam. He defeated Brazilian Felipe Wu on the last shot of the competition to win the gold medal. It was Vietnam’s first-ever Olympic gold medal.

One fan of the Vietnamese team was so excited, she wrote “I’m lit” in a post on Twitter.

Lit is a slang³ term used to express excitement.

And in the women’s sabre fencing competition on Monday morning, Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first-ever U.S. athlete to wear a hijab in the Olympics.

Muhammad is 30 years old and from the state of New Jersey⁴. She is Muslim. She beat a fencer from Ukraine on Monday. But, shortly after, she lost to a French athlete.

But, Muhammad will see more Olympic action on Saturday when she competes in the team event.

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slang – n. words that are not considered part of the standard vocabulary of a language; used informally

hijab – n. a head covering worn outside the home by Muslim women

rifle – n. a gun that has a long barrel and that is held against your shoulder when you shoot it

pistol – n. a small gun made to be aimed and fired with one hand

medal – n. a piece of metal often in the form of a coin with designs and words in honor of a special event, a person, or an achievement

judo – n. a sport developed in Japan in which opponents attempt to throw or wrestle⁵ each other to the ground

huge – n. very large : very great in size, amount, or degree

1 judo   

n.柔道

参考例句：

• The judo is a kind of fighting sport.柔道是一种对抗性体育活动。
• Which is more important in judo, strength or techniques?柔道运动中，力量和技术哪个更重要？

2 pistol   

n.手枪

参考例句：

• He drew his pistol and aimed at the enemy soldier.他拔出枪对准敌兵。
• The escaped criminal fell at the sound of a pistol.手枪一响，逃犯应声倒下。

3 slang   

n.俚语，行话；vt.使用俚语，辱骂；vi.辱骂

参考例句：

• The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语。
• Slang often goes in and out of fashion quickly.俚语往往很快风行起来又很快不再风行了。

4 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

5 wrestle   

vi.摔跤，角力；搏斗；全力对付

参考例句：

• He taught his little brother how to wrestle.他教他小弟弟如何摔跤。
• We have to wrestle with difficulties.我们必须同困难作斗争。